Bronwen worked at Michalsons from January 2020 to February 2025.
Bronwen Seager believes in empowering and helping clients to achieve their potential in any way she can. She enjoys simplifying complex problems to ensure the law is accessible to all. Her focus areas include Data Protection and IT Law. Bronwen is a Tech lawyer and is passionate about the relationship between the two fields.
Bronwen Seager believes that the law should enable clients to utilise technology, and the changes it brings, to their benefit and not their detriment. “Technology for good” is beneficial for everyone. She enjoys balancing existing and developing legislation with new technology to ensure they work in harmony.
Read her insights.
- Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E)– International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) – Issued Nov 2022 | Expires Nov 2024 – Credential ID 62421774
- Bachelor of Laws – Stellenbosch University – 2018 to 2019
- Bachelor of Arts, Majoring in Law & Politics – Stellenbosch University – 2015 to 2017
Bronwen Seager loves being outdoors and enjoys hiking, rock climbing, and sailing. She shares her love of the outdoors with others by volunteering her time as an adult leader for Scouts South Africa.
At Michalsons, Bronwen helps clients leverage the law, and its relationship with technology, to their advantage. She believes in an interdisciplinary approach and values the various role players necessary to help ensure a project’s success. She helps clients realise their potential by using the Michalsons’ 4-pronged approach, including:
Learning
- Conducting customised data protection workshops, both in-person and online, to help your stakeholders (like employees) appreciate the importance of data protection and for clients to capitalise on the commercial benefits data protection has to offer.
- Preparing guides and playbooks to assist clients in their contracting practices.
- Hosting and participating in webinars and public events.
Programme
- Coaching clients through our selection of programmes
Software
- Supporting clients in implementing and configuring privacy management and data governance software to enable them to comply with the relevant laws
Services
- Drafting, reviewing, and updating privacy and information security policies and procedures
- Formulating, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating IT contracts to ensure clear terms and protect clients’ interests in technology-related transactions.
- Advising and guiding clients on how to implement an effective data protection compliance programme to protect and secure personal data
- Advising and guiding clients on the lawful use of electronic signatures
- Providing practical legal advice and opinions about the application of the law to a client’s unique context and giving recommendations
- Using plain legal language to effectively communicate legal information to clients’ key stakeholders through simple plain and clear legal language. Contracts and legal documents should be drafted for the reader, not a Judge who may never read it
Bronwen joined Michalsons in 2020.